CUSTOS MORUM

custos morum (k[schwa]s-tahs mor-[schwa]m). [Law Latin] Custodian of morals (H.L.A. Hart believed that courts should not be seen as the custos morum). • This name was sometimes used in reference to the Court of King’s Bench. “[H]e [Viscount Simonds] approved the assertion of Lord Mansfield two centuries before that the Court of King’s Bench was […]